Journal articles & major reports
— 2025 —
Sayles, J.S., N.C. Ban, K. Sobkowich, P. Ahern, and O. Bird. (In Press) Lessons learned from a new online dashboard about the sociocultural aspects of marine recreational fishing in British Columbia, Canada. Fisheries.
— 2024 —
Campbell, L.K., E. Svendsen, M. Johnson, N. Piland, D. Locke, N. Sonti, J.M. Grove, M. Romolini, H. McMillen, R. Dacks, B. DuBois, J. Sayles, T. Muñoz-Erickson, L. Landau, L. Jasny, K. Heinlen, M. Arroyave, C. McCarthy, D. Bloniarz, B. Goldberg, G. Bauer, T. Warziniack, S. Plitt, J. Onofre, N.H. Vigil, A. Zamora-Rendon, A. García Castro, N.H. García, B. Flores. 2024. Reflecting on Local Ecological Stewardship, Care, and Action across Two Decades of Research. Cities and the Environment. 17(2): DOI: 10.15365/cate.2024.170203
— 2023 —
Mclean, E.L, M.R.B. ten Brink , J.S. Sayles, L.P. Power, J.D. Essoka and S. Rachko. 2023. Delivering Water Quality Monitoring Data to the Public: Lessons Learned from a Pilot in Baltimore Harbor. US Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC. EPA/600/R-23/371.
DuBois, B., J.S. Sayles, C. Merkle, L. Carlson, C. Spalding, S. Kaipa, and B. Meyers. 2023. The 2021-22 Southeast New England Program Stewardship Mapping and Assessment Project Report. Southeast New England Program Network.
Sayles, J.S., R.P. Furey, M.R.B. ten Brink, G. Carvalho, B. Crossman, L. Zender, R. Kosinski, S. Sebalo, P. Lemieus, T. Boe, S. Davis, K. Krauss. 2023. Using Human-Centered Design to Create a Hazardous Waste Management App for use in Rural Alaska. United States Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC. EPA/600/R-23/058.
— 2022 —
Sayles, J.S., R.P. Furey, M.R.B. ten Brink. 2022. Effects of web-scraping search depth on hyperlink network analysis of environmental stewardship organizations. Applied Network Science, 7:36 doi.org/10.1007/s41109-022-00472-0
Merkle, C., B. DuBois, J.S. Sayles, L. Carlson, H.C. Spalding, S. Kaipa, B. Myers. 2022. Self-reported effects of the covid-19 pandemic on stewardship organizations and their activities in Southeastern New England, USA. Frontiers in Sustainable Cities, 3: 772880. doi.org/10.3389/frsc.2021.772880
DuBois, B., J.S. Sayles, L. Carlson, C. Merkle, H.C. Spalding, S. Kaipa, B. Myers. 2022. Stewardship Mapping and Assessment Project of Southeast New England (STEW-MAP SNE) online dashboard and datasets. https://www.arcgis.com/apps/dashboards/2fe9393c3fe343ab80cdcaf6c1a2cb33
— 2021 —
Felipe-Lucia* M., A. Guerrero, S. Alexander, J. Ashander, J.A. Baggio, M. Barnes, O. Bodin, A. Bonn, M. Fortin, R. Friedman, J. Gephart, K. Helmstedt, A. Keyes, K. Kroetz, F. Massol, M. Pocock, J.S. Sayles, R.Thompson, S. Wood, L. Dee. 2021. Conceptualize ecosystem services as social-ecological networks. Trends in Ecology and Evolution doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2021.11.012 (*alphabetical after Felipe-Lucia)
Jasny, L., J.S. Sayles, M. Hamilton, L. Roldan Gomez, D. Jacobs, C. Prell, P. Matous, E. Schiffer, A. Guererro Gonzalez, M. Barnes. 2021. Participant engagement in environmentally focused social network research. Social Networks, 66: 125-138.
— 2020 —
On paternity leave
— 2019 —
Sayles, J.S., and M.E. Mulrennan. 2019. Coastal Landscape Modification by Cree Hunters. In M.E. Mulrennan, C.H. Scott and K. Scott (eds) Caring for Eeyou Istchee: Protected Area Creation on Wemindji Cree Territory. UBC Press; Vancouver.
Bodin, Ö.*, S.M. Alexander, J. Baggio, M.L. Barnes, R. Berardo, G.S. Cumming, L.E. Dee, A.P. Fischer, M. Fischer, M. Mancilla Garcia, A.M. Guerrero, J. Hileman, K. Ingold, P. Matous, T.H. Morrison, D. Nohrstedt, J. Pittman, G. Robins and J.S. Sayles. 2019. Improving network approaches to the study of complex social–ecological interdependencies. Nature Sustainability, doi.org/10.1038/s41893-019-0308-0 (*alphabetical after Bodin)
Debortoli, N.S., D.G. Clark, J.D. Ford, J.S. Sayles, E.P. Diaconescu. 2019. An integrative climate change vulnerability index for Arctic aviation and marine transportation. Nature Communications, 10 (1), 2596.
Sayles, J.S., M. Mancilla Garcia, M. Hamilton*, S. Alexander, J. Baggio, A.P. Fischer, K. Ingold, G. Meredith, J. Pittman. 2019. Social-ecological network analysis for sustainability sciences: a systematic review and innovative research agenda for the future. Environmental Research Letters, DOI https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab2619 (*alphabetical after Hamilton)
— 2018 —
Ford, J., T. Pearce, G. McDowell; L. Berrang-Ford, J.S. Sayles, E. Belfer. 2018. Vulnerability and its discontents: The past, present, and future of climate change vulnerability research. Climatic Change, 151 (2), 189-203.
(*equal authorship) *Debortoli, N.S., J.S. *Sayles, D.G. Clark, and J. Ford. 2018. A systems network approach for climate change vulnerability assessment. Environmental Research Letters, 13 (10): 104019
Sayles. J.S. 2018. Effects of social-ecological scale mismatches on estuary restoration at the project and landscape level in Puget Sound, USA. Ecological Restoration, 36 (1): 62-75.
Metson, G.S., S.M. Powers, R.L. Hale, J.S. Sayles, G. Öberg, G.K. Macdonald, Y. Kuwayama, N.P. Springer, A.J. Weatherley, K.L. Hondula, K. Jones, R.B. Chowdhury, A. Beusen, and A.F. Bouwman. 2018. Socio-environmental consideration of phosphorus flows in the urban sanitation chain of contrasting cities. Regional Environmental Change, 18:1387 – 1401
Clark, D., N.S. Debortoli, J.D. Ford, J.S. Sayles, and E. Diaconescu. 2018. Arctic Climate Change Vulnerability Index (ACCVI): Northern Aviation, Shipping, and Infrastructure. 76 (Transport Canada, Montréal-QC, 2018).
— 2017 —
Sayles, J.S. and J.A. Baggio. 2017. Social-ecological network analysis of scale mismatches in estuary watershed restoration. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, 114 (10): E1776-E1785.
Sayles, J.S. and J.A. Baggio. 2017. Who collaborates and why: Assessment and diagnostic of governance network integration for salmon restoration in Puget Sound, USA. Journal of Environmental Management, 186 (1): 64-78.
— 2016 and earlier —
Ford, J.D., T. Bell, N.J. Couture, D.E. Atkinson, C. Champalle, A.C. Willox, J. Dawson, M. Falardeau-Côté, M. Flynn, S. Harper, T.S. James, J. Labbe, T. Lanz, I. Mauro, E. Myers, N. Ogden, K. Parewick, T. Pearce, B. Radosavljevic, R. Riedlsperger, J.S. Sayles and M. Tremblay. 2016. Perspectives on Canada’s North Coast region. In D.S. Lemmen, F.J. Warren, T.S. James and C.S.L. Mercer Clarke, (eds.), Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation Assessment of Canada’s Marine Coasts, p. 153–206. Ottawa, ON: Government of Canada.
Sayles, J.S. 2015. No wilderness to plunder: Process thinking reveals Cree land-use via the goose-scape. The Canadian Geographer, 49 (3): 297–303.
Benessaiah, K. and J. Sayles. 2014. Drug trafficking’s effects on coastal ecosystems. Science, 343 (6178): 1431.
Sayles, J.S. and M. E. Mulrennan. 2010. Securing a future: Cree hunters’ resistance and flexibility to environmental changes, Wemindji, James Bay. Ecology and Society, 15 (4): 22.
Sayles, J.S. and D.I. Green. 2005. Bilateral action for right whales. Science, 310 (5754): 1616-1617.
Book Reviews
Sayles, J.S. 2016. A review of Together We Survive: Ethnographic Intuition, Friendship, and Conversations. The Canadian Journal of Native Studies. 36 (2): 221-223
Sayles, J.S. 2012. A review of Practicing Geography: Careers for Enhancing Society and the Environment. The Professional Geographer. 64 (4): 626-627.
Theses and dissertation
Sayles, J.S. 2015. Flowing together: Addressing social-ecological scale mismatches for estuary watershed restoration in the Whidbey Basin, Puget Sound, WA. PhD. Dissertation. Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ.
Sayles, J.S. 2008. Tapaiitum: Human modifications of the coast as adaptations to environmental change, Wemindji, Eastern James Bay. Master’s thesis. Concordia University. Montreal, QC.
(Authorship by alphabetical order) Benessaiah, K., A. Bennett, S. Boyce, E. Crawford, V. Demers, M. Forrest, E. Lagacé, C.C. Lemoine, C. Péloquin, J. Sayles, S. Schiff, and K. Scott. 2003. Aa-Wiichaautuwiihkw: Creating a culturally appropriate watershed and adjacent marine coastal protected area in Paakumshumwaau (old factory) Wemindji, James Bay, Quebec. Group senior project. McGill School of Environment, McGill University. Montreal, QC.
Other publications
Sayles, J.S. and E. White. 2006. Appendix F: Discussion of dams on the Wallkill River. In, Wallkill River Watershed Conservation and Management Plan Steering Committee (eds), Wallkill River Watershed Conservation and Management Plan. Ulister County Soil and Water Conservation District. New York.
Sayles, J.S. 2005. DRAFT New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Hudson River Estuary Program stream barrier inventory and characterization methodology and training manual. New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, Hudson River Estuary Program. New Paltz, NY.
Sayles, J.S. 2005. Knowledge flow: a Hudson River Estuary watershed citizens’ tool for ecological discussions about stream barriers and barrier removal. Pages 30-36 in, David Burns, Lisa Vasilakos, Rick Oestrike (eds), Natural Resource Management Plan for the Fishkill Creek Watershed, June 2005. Dutchess County Environmental Management Council. New York.
Sayles, J.S. 2005. Summary report of the stream barrier inventory and characterization of the Fishkill Creek Watershed. New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, Hudson River Estuary Program. New Paltz, NY